The paper "Towards International Standards for Clinical Practice Guidelines" written by the 2010–11 G-I-N Board of Trustees and published in April 2012 in the Annals of Internal Medicine has now been translated into Italian and published in the Italian journal "Evidence".

In each edition of enGINe, we take the opportunity to introduce some of our Board sub-committees, task forces and groups and tell you a bit more about them and what they are doing to serve the members and the organisation.

Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, Steering Group Chair. As the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N )North America concludes its second year of existence, I thought it might be useful to reflect on where we came from, what we have accomplished, and how it might influence regional initiatives for G-I-N in other parts of the world.

Preparations for G-I-N 2013 are now well underway, with the Scientific Committee having now agreed the five themes for the abstracts and the plenary sessions. Details will be shared soon on the conference website and the call for abstracts will open on 10th December.

The Guidelines International Network is formally constituted as a Scottish Guarantee Company under Company Number SC243691 and recognised as a Scottish Charity under Scottish Charity Number SC034047 with its Registered Office at J. & H. Mitchell W.S., 51 Atholl Road, Pitlochry, Perthshire PH16 5BY, Scotland.